Name Canvas

For my name canvas, I used items both in and outside.  For the N, I took a picture of the Zoo sculpture at the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo, used photoshop and cropped and rotated the picture to make an N.  For the I, I used the door handle to my garage, used photoshop to crop and rotate to make an I.  For the C, I took a picture of the padlock that I had on my gate, then used photoshop to crop the picture.  For the O, I used the lid to a candle, and used photoshop to crop the picture.  For the L, I took a picture of the base of my gazebo.  The wood is used to level it out, and also to hold the stakes down.  Once I cropped and rotated the picture using photoshop, it was easy to see the L.  For the E, I used my paper towel holder.  It had this design on all four corners.  I then used photoshop to crop the picture.  After I cropped and rotated the photos, I then opened a new layer on photoshop.  Once I had them all cropped and rotated, I used the "Fill & Adjustment" button on the tool bar and clicked on "black and white" to make all the photos black and white.  I felt like this made them stand out more.  I then opened a new layer in photoshop and used the "place" command to place my photos in order on the background layer.